vi, 360 pages : 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Gerald W. R. Ward -- Regionalism in American Furniture Studies / Philip D. Zimmerman -- American Furniture in an International Context / John T. Kirk -- Reflections of Their World: The Furniture of the Upper St. John Valley, 1820-1930 / Edwin A. Churchill and Sheila McDonald -- Poor, Proud, and Primitive: Images of Appalachian Domestic Interiors / Dean Herrin -- The Study of American Furniture from the Perspective of the Maker / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- Timothy Loomis and the Economy of Joinery in Windsor, Connecticut, 1740-1786 / William N. Hosley, Jr. -- American Painted Seating Furniture: Marketing the Product, 1750-1840 / Nancy Goyne Evans -- My Life as an Upholsterer, 1927-1986 / Andrew Passeri -- Imagining the Parlor, 1830-1880 / Katherine C. Grier -- At Rest: Victorian Death Furniture / Ellen Marie Snyder -- Furniture as Machinery: Nineteenth-Century Patent Rocking Chairs / Davuid B. Driscoll -- Gossip, Rhetoric, and Objects: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Newfoundland Furniture / Gerald L. Pocius -- Index

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